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About Piffaro
Experience the intimacy and wonder of the music of the Renaissance.
Piffaro breathes life into the sounds of the past with its collection of carefully crafted period instruments: shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, and a variety of percussion.
Join us online, on tour, or at our concert series in Philadelphia, PA and Wilmington, DE, and enjoy the unamplified beauty of Renaissance music in a noisy world.
Up Next:
Eagle and Empire
May 8-12 | Philadelphia, Wilmington & NYC
May 22-Jun 4 | Streaming online
The music of Colonial Mexico tells a complex story shaped by power, adaptation, and survival. European and Indigenous traditions collided and combined, creating a new soundscape. Piffaro’s wind players, joined by guest singers, plucked strings, and percussion, explore this repertoire.
Listen to Piffaro
Have a listen to some of the many different sounds of the Renaissance.
“An extraordinarily versatile group of musicians that turns on a dime to craft new musical worlds from medieval and renaissance sources.”
– Philadelphia Inquirer
